Performance appraisals are not only about numbers; behaviours, values quantifies - The Economic Times | Metaglossia: The Translation World | Scoop.it

There’s a bogus belief that gets in managers’ way when they evaluate performance. - ...... Consider a[...] job that seems to offer a deceptively quantifiable metric: the performance of a translator. How do you measure a translator's performance? The obvious, easy, and wrong answer: the number of documents translated.

But while that aspect of performance is easily quantified, it takes no notice of what is genuinely important - the ability to capture nuance. The ability isn't hard to evaluate accurately. Just take a document written in a foreign language and give it to two translators.

Then take their two translations to a native speaker and ask, "Which one got it right?" The native speaker will read the two documents and then comfortably say, "This one translates each word accurately. But this one - this one captures what the writer really intended."